20th Century Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Society and Literature 1945-1970 (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Alan Sinfield

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explores the social basis of our conceptions of literature and the ways in which writing is affected by the media, institutional and technical, through which...

   Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults

   Brave New Teenagers

   Edited by Carrie Hintz, Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals)

   Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction

   By Colin Greenland

   When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

   The Syndrome Syndrome

   Edited by James Peacock, Tim Lustig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature

   Novel Listening

   By Justin St. Clair

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Wallace Stevens

   Edited by Charles Doyle

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. George Bernard Shaw

   Edited by T. F. Evans, Mr T F Evans Nfa

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. William Carlos Williams

   Edited by Crane Doyle

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature

   Ghost Images

   By Anastasia Ulanowicz

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. John Dos Passos

    Edited by Barry Maine

    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge